* Dan Smithers wrote on Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:57:05AM CEST: > Keith Marshall wrote: > > On Wednesday 09 September 2009 16:02:58 Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > >> the zlib project does not use Autoconf or Automake. It > >> only pretends to look like a project which uses Autoconf or > >> Automake using a hand-written configure and Makefile.in which only > >> works completely under Linux. > > > > ...and the resemblance is in name only; beyond that, there isn't even > > a superficial likeness -- certainly in no way GCS conformant. > > How can I tell autoconf to run the configure without worrying about it? AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([zlib]) will cause zlib/configure to be run if it exists in the source tree. > Also, is there a way of setting up cascading projects that don't perform > all the compiler checks for each sub-project? Not really (rationale: the sub project would not be usable alone then). But you can use -C aka. --cache-file to greatly speed up the sub configure scripts. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
